Kashiikaen

Second park of the day Kashiikaen is in the Eastern part of Fukuoka. It's aimed at young kids and is full of sickly sweet Sylvanian Family animals. I think the park had been run down a few years ago but it had had a recent rebranding and scrub up.

First attraction was the Fresh Pretty Cure stage show. It's a popular anime show in Japan and this live action production was just bizarre. I had no idea what was going on but it seemed to feature 4 girls beating up a bloke. The young crowd seemed to like it though.

Next to the stage show was an indoor attraction themed around the power rangers. Young kids get to see if they have what it takes to become a ranger by trying to complete some small games. We weren't allowed to play any of the games because we'd likely break them being way too big. They didn't have a problem with us taking pics though, which was nice of them. I didn't realise that the Power Ranger shows have been running since 1975 as shown on the gallery.

Some of the sickly sweet Sylvanian theming.


It hasn't changed much in the 30+ years its been running.

The park was reported as having 3 coasters. The biggest one dominating one end of the park is Pegasus. It was not too bad at all but it'll be interesting how the owners of the park get this ride to fit with the rest of the kid-friendly theming. I guess there are no plans to get rid of it or else why invest in the fresh coat of paint the ride had been given (it used to be white).

Cute floor paintings.

The second coaster is a kiddy ride called Bun Bun coaster. It's themed around a bumblebee.

The third coaster was nowhere to be found. Whilst some members tried to find it I merely asked the ride operator how many coasters there were and was told only two. This Japanese language training was paying off. If I hadn't picked up a few phrases I'd still be lost in Fukuoka.

I spent a good 10 minutes running around the gardens trying to take a photo of this moth. It kept eluding me however, and I eventually gave up.

Back to the stage show for more silly stage shenanigans. The costumes were quite good but the manga face masks were a little sinister.

Having read pretty disparaging reports of this park in the past it looks like it's turned the corner and benefited from some decent investment but its not a park that I'd revisit unless they do get a third coaster.